Tie-plate



D. P. KELLOGG. TIE PLATE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 31. 1920.

1,367,551 Patented Feb. 8, 1921.

UNITED sTATEsr OFFICE;

DANIEL P. KELLOGG', DE LOS .ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

TIE-PLATE.

Application filed July 31,

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that l, DANIEL l". lhELLOGG, a resident ol Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a certain new and useful mprovement in Tie-Plates, of which improvement the following is a specification.

My invention relates to means for connecting railroad track rails to the cross ties on which they are supported, and its object is to provide an appliance of the class known as tie plates, which shall be of simple and inexpensive construction, and ready appli cation in superstructure of standard type, and will attain the substantial advantages of preventing creeping and lateral displacement of the rails, and minimizing deterior tion oil ties by effecting a distribution of the weight applied thereto.

The improvement claimed is hereinafter fully set forth.

in the accompanying drawings: Figure l is a plan or top view of a portion of arailroad track rail and of" three cross ties to nich it is connected, illustrating an application of my invention; Fig. 2, a side View, partly in longitudinal section, on the line a (5 cl? Fig. l, of the same; 8, a trans verse section, on the line Z) Z) of Fig. 1; and,

Fig. i, a plan view, on a reduced scale, of a blank from which the tie plate is formed, before being cut and bent into the form in which it is applied.

In the practir e of my invention, referring descriptively to the specific embodiment thereof which is herein exemplified, 1 provide a tie plate, 1., which is formed from a rectangular piece of boiler plate of suitable thickness and width, by cutting and bend ing on its sides and ends, as indicated in Fig. l, the dotted lines indicating those of bending, and the full lines those oi? cutting. The tie plate herein shown is adapted for the connection of a rail, 2, of standard sec tion, to three cross ties, 3, 3, 3, and, to this end, the blank for the plate is made of a length equal to the distance over the three ties, plus suliicient distance, as say, two inches orthereabouts, to enable a flange, 1*, to be turned down at ea h of its ends, to abut on the outer side of the tie at that end. The blank is also notched or cut out, on each of its sides, in the spaces between the ties, thereby forming lateral recesses, 1*, at each end of which recesses, a downward flange, 1, adapted to abut on one side of a tie, is

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 8, 1921.

1920. Serial no. 400,302.

turned. The tie plate is secured to the ties by spikes, l, and the rail is laid upon it, and secured to it, by having its bottom flanges fitted under clips, 1, formed by turning over the metal of the plate to fit the rail flanges, one of said clips being located in one oi the recesses, 31, on one side of the rail, and the other being located in the other r'ecess, 1*, on the opposite side of he rail. The rail and clips are secured by nut-equipped bolts 5.

It will be seen that the tie plate above described performs the tmntions of an anticreeper, a rail anchor, and a spacer which holds the rails in gage in both directions, and it also acts to preserve the ties to a considerable extent, as it prevents the whole weight on any wheel from being applied to a single tie, by reason of the fact that ii a tie should be deflected, the tensile strength of the plate is exerted to impose weight on the connected ties and effect its distribution. The rail could not move out of gage without carrying the connected ties, or shearing the clips, that are bent over the rail flanges. in order to turn over, it would be necessary for the rail to bend the clip portion of the plate, or turn over the entire plate, with its broader base, or bend it at the edges of the rail flanges, Which would hardly be possible through three sections of channel.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. The combination of a railroad track rail; a plurality of cross ties; an interposed integral plate metal tie plate, spanning the ties and having a plurality of transversely extending flanges, abutting both sides of each tie, and longitudinally extending, op positely disposed clips, engaging the opposite flan es of the rail; means for positively securing the rail to the clips; and means for positively securing the tie plate to the ties.

2. The combination of a railroad track rail; a plurality of cross ties; an interposed integral plate metal tie plate, spanning the ties and having a plurality of transversely extending flanges, abutting both sides of each tie, and longitudinally extending, oppositely disposed clips, engaging the opposite flanges of the rail; bolts, securing the rail to said clips; and spikes, securing the tie plate to the ties.

3. VA. tie late formed From n r fl anmllar sheet of plate metal, of suliicient length to span a plurality of cross ties, and havflange, and heated on alternately opposite ing' downwardlv turned end. flanges, each sides of the plate.

adapted to abut on one side or" a tie; lateral DANIEL P KELLOGGI recesses, each havmg downwardly burned.

end flanges, adapted to abut on the adjacent Witnesses:

sides of two ties; and upwardly turned clips, D. I. PLATT.)

in said recesses, adapted to engage a mi]. H. HOLLINGSWORTH. 

